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mouM wherein your plant your Hyacinths, adding afixth 

 part of cow dung; in this compoft you are to plant 

 them two inches and one half deep, and four inches di- 

 ftance root from root : Thus mufi: they remain until their 

 leaf-buds begin to appear, v/hen you are to riddle over 

 them one inch more of ftift mould; to prevent their 

 being expoftd too much to the dry weather, and to the 

 heal of the fun, both of which are very prejudicial to 

 this plant when in flower, which they will be, by the 

 beginning or the middle of May. In the evening I gave 

 them frequent waterings, or very early in the morning, 

 but not when the fun fhined. As foon as their leaves were 

 quite decayed, I took the roots out of the ground, 

 fpread them upon a cloth, and dried them : When they 

 were dry, I cleared them from the earth, and took from 

 them fuch ofi-fets as came off freely. 



In January or February, (fhould the froft fet in fevere) 

 whilfl: their roots are fpringing, and fending their fibres 

 into the ground, I covered the fides of their beds with 

 two or three inches of rotten tan-bark, but never kiffer- 

 ed it to mix with their compoft, it being extremely pre- 

 judicial to them ; I alfo covered the beds with long flraw, 

 except when their leaves appeared above ground; when 

 I laid on an incli more of earth, but no ftraw, as that 

 would rot their young leaves, and perhaps their roots 

 alfo. 



The Perftan kinds of RamincuJusy cannot be equalled 

 by any flower in beauty, diverfity of colours, and forms 

 of their vallly magnificent flov7ers; for which reafon i 

 fhall be the more particuiiir in their culture, and of the 

 management ol their leedlings. 



I v.ould advife to have the roots of the double flowers 

 from the inynheers Voerhchns, or Vofrhelm and VanZzm- 

 pel at Haerletn, and the femidouble from fume florifts 

 m Flanders ; as the Voerbelms feldom part with their beft 

 lemidcuble flowers; as it is from thefe they have the bell 

 feed. I planted the fineft double forts about the b-gin- 

 ning of February., in light rich earth, as directed for the 

 Turky forts; obierving to give them every year trelh 

 compoft. If you plant them in pots, put one root, 01: 

 two at moft, into a two-penny pot ; ami fn ioon as you 

 liave planted them, fink the pots into tiie eround, t»'o 



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